Big Joe Electric Forklift.

if it is like this, I have had 2. I used them by my paper cutters. I had a small web press in my print shop and I would take full pallets off the press and roll them tight to the cutter to be finished. can I ask the size of the forks that will be on it? one of mine came with short (24in) forks and the other had 48. I used them both to rig printing equipment and to load the box truck if the mule was down. To load or unload, I made sure that I could lift and hold the load stable, then would back the truck under, or away from the lift. If I can help in any way, feel free to send me a pm and will be happy to try and help. BroJer

should do the trick just fine and save your *ss and back a whole lot of grief! I always had a few of these pallet pullers around, too. If you do not have one, I would suggest looking on around for one ondacheap. You can use a chain hooked to the boom on the lift, pull forward until the skid is right at the end of the trailer or truck, back up and lift the thing right out. (or a garden tractor to pull the skid to the end) good luck and be safe!! BroJer

Not sure I follow the question skippy. Are you saying once you venture out of this forum, all you can find is Google?

looks like a good buy... and there is a lot of steel in it if it ever dies, jus sayin. glad I could help! I just used a marine battery in mine and kept it charged with the car charger. think i replaced in once in all the years I had it. and I can neither admit, nor deny, nor would I EVAH encourage anyone, to put 4 humans on the back to counterbalance it, while picking up a printing press, or anything else! ;-) BroJer

are those things self propelled ?

That's pretty neat. I'm pretty sure i'm losing my hyster so i'll be on the lookout for one of these. Thanks for the post!

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

See the steering/pulling handle on the front in the pic?

yeah i saw that, was what made me wonder if it was internally propelled, because all the added steel in that thing, and considering the extra weight it would add, made me wonder as well if that handle was merely for steering, and might have controls on it for forward/back/etc, being as it was already powered. With all that extra weight, that would be a definite plus

hek, marine batteries are good for all kinds of decharging and recharging situations! I drove a chevy LUV for years that had no charging system whatsoever on it. Put a heavy deepcycle marine battery under the hood, and another one in the front floorboard. Would drive that thing all over on battery power alone, but learned to keep that spare. The hoods on those LUVs opened from the rear, and when the main battery was drained, and i was sitting at a store or somewhere, and it wouldn't start, (got a lot of funny looks here, as i'd try to start with no juice, get out, pull the cables through the passenger side window, lift the rear of the hood, hook up the cables to the main battery, lay the hood back in place, cables all tucked in, crank it up, and head on down the road). At this point I knew it needed to be headed towards the house, where there'd better be a good charger waiting ; )

lol Mech, ok ; ) I bought a couple of those one time, and didn't even know it! lol! Not the lifts, but the "big battery" items, w/chargers. This guy at the VA warehouse knew me, and I had called for some other reason, but he asked, "you know you still got these floor buffers out here don't ya?" I'm like, huh?? Went back and looked at the tiny photos (where it mostly showed the chargers sitting on top). I drove a light ford ranger, and he said, "these things ain't gonna fit in your lil truck!" They were those big walk behind floor polishers, and with a little research I found they weighed 800lbs! Each! Wound up having to rent a truck to go get em, after finding one that had a ramp I hoped wouldn't collapse with it. Got em home, unloaded em onto some plywood out in the yard, checked em out real good, advertised one on ebay, Some guy way up in Akron bought it, told him i had 2, he wanted em both, drove all the way in the snow. We loaded em up, under their own power, fastened em down real good, and about 3 months later he left me a great feedback on it.